Maven add a local classes directory to module's classpath?

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I know this is a bit out of maven's scope, but I need to add a local directory with compiled classes to the module's classpath. I saw: Maven: add a folder or jar file into currrent classpath, but this is good for a jar only. I need to have a similar solution but with compiled classes in a directory on local file system.

Is this even possible? Thx! Java maven classpath link|improve this question asked Mar 29 at 12:26Eldad AK11.

You can add new source directory: maven-compiler-plugin ${basedir}/src/main/java ${basedir}/gen-src See also Maven - Add directory to classpath while executing tests.

I tried it without success. Maven tells me: INFO Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date Even though there is NO target directory. – Eldad AK Mar 29 at 14:50.

After some extensive research, I found that my best option was to use the maven-antrun-plugin and during the process-resources phase, generate a jar from the classes and add it as dependency with system scope and systemPath to the jar I just built. Pom snippets: org.apache.maven. Plugins maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 process-resources run .... ant-contrib ant-contrib 1.0b3 com.my.

Code classes. Jar 1.1 system ${env. TEMP}\classes.jar.

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